Photo Studios serving Detroit's Pol-Ams 1875-1950

Need help identifying folks in a family photo? I'll post it here so other photo buffs can help. Check back often for new photos. Please feel free to send your studio pictures to me to include on the site! Vintage photos from your collection with known locations and subjects are needed.

Blog Archive

Monday, June 10, 2013

We are adding sets of photos collected by a Michigan genealogist who would like to get these images back in the hands of the respective families. If you recognize a photo, please contact us at pmission@orchardlakeschools.com.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

The 1935 funeral of Marian Smolinski lying in state. Buried in parish cemetery Sw. Jakuba Apostola w Chelmicy Duzej. Listed on the parish website there is a conflict of the death date. We believe it was 1935 not 1939. Can anyone confirm the true date? Contact the family at:cab8888 @ aol.com

Sunday, July 20, 2008

It's really cool (I won't say unique) because the center of the photo was made in Poland (in about 1934) which included my g-grandparents andtheir 4 children still living in Poland. The photo was augmented (inDetroit) to include their other 4 children (and their families).

The photo was then sent back to Poland as a wedding anniversary gift to the g-grandparents. The two families to the left and the two families to the right lived in America. Some of the American children never even met the couple in the center, my g-grandparents.

I know my dad,who is in one of the families to the left of center in the photo,never met my g-grandparents. I'm posting this photo on your website, on the off chance that someone in it, or someone desended from the people in it would contact me with information about the people in the photo.